Dmitry Polyansky, July 5 -- The multilateral forums Russia still invests in are not the ones built from Europe's postwar security order. They are the ones still deciding who gets a seat at the table.

unlike the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, which he described as locked in a crisis that cannot be fixed by procedural reform.

"BRICS and SCO still provide space for meaningful multilateral diplomacy," Polyansky told TASS, drawing a pointed contrast with an institution where consensus among 57 participating states has not held since 2022.

The OSCE operates on unanimity. That design, built for a post-Cold War Europe that no longer exists, has made it effectively inert on the questions that matter most. Russia and Weste...